School and Community Injury Prevention

Projects in this theme relate to both road safety and more generic injury prevention issues.

They may focus on a range of topics from exploring particular behaviours that may reduce safety, to targeted school and media interventions.

Research covers the broad range of methodologies from basic laboratory based studies to the implementation and evaluation of programs.

Theme leaders: Dr Lisa Buckley  and Dr Alexia Lennon 

Evaluation of the Type I Child Car Restraints Fitting Service (2010 - in progress)

Reducing optimism bias in young novice drivers: The potential of accountability or insight experience interventions (2010 - in progress)

Addressing low speed vehicle run-overs of young children (2009 - in progress)

Better understanding the influence of risk perceptions on health behaviours (2009 - in progress)

Boosting the effects of a curriculum based injury prevention program for adolescents through a school connectedness intervention (2009 - in progress)

A comparison of the efficacy of two approaches to medication warnings about driving (2009 - in progress)

The culture of young women's drinking: Implications for developing effective policing strategies (2009 - 2010)

Developing female specific intervention strategies to reduce the alarming levels of risky alcohol consumption by young women (2009 - 2010)

The effect of rest breaks on driver fatigue (2009 - in progress)

National protocol for the development and delivery of Indigenous road safety programs (2009 - 2010)

Community understanding and management of the impact of prescribed drugs on driving and machine operation (2008 - in progress)

Improving child safety in cars (2007 - 2010)

The development of an effectiveness trial of the SPIY Program: An injury and risk-taking prevention curriculum for Year 9 adolescents (2005 - 2009)

A content analysis of Australian motor vehicle advertising; and overseas comparison studies (2005 - 2007)

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